Upon The Interpretation History Of Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was written by Pu Songling during the period ruled by Shunzhi and Kangxi of early Qing dynasty. He was born in Zibo of Shandong. He lived a poor life, and failed in most tests. However, he had a cynical character. If he had not written this book, he would have been an ordinary man. Being the peak of ancient Chinese Classical stories, this book brought him with a very high reputation. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio has a great influence on late literature. The understanding and attitude toward Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio underwent a tortuous change from Pu Songling's creation to the twenty-first century and it took on a different looks.In Qing Dynasty, Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio was understood from the point view of ethics and social history: some focused on the talents of the author who told the ghost stories, some focused on the whining, lonely emotions of the author, some focused on the converting function of morality.Since twenty century, the interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio modernized from the political, cultural, and psychological perspective. Some interpretations carried on from the politics at that time, some researched on the cultural significance and national psychology from within.Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio became one of the classic works and the representative of Chinese literary stories in Qing Dynasty as time passed by. Some stories and characters became the cultural signals such as Soul Leaving of a Beauty, Wolves and Crickets.Hermeneutics has a great impact on the Chinese social humanities. It centered on the meaning, gave explanations on author, readers and texts, and inspired the understanding and interpretation of the literature. The combination of hermeneutics and Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio is helpful in clearing the thread of the interpretation history, drawing the development law and making a further study on the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Therefore, it carries a theoretical and practical significance.The thesis is divided into five chapters: Chapter one is the Introduction. It tells the subject background and its significance, presents a summary of the past achievements home and abroad, and points out the research range, methods, the structure, creations and shortcomings.Chapter two focuses on the relationship between hermeneutics and the interpretations of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. First, the hermeneutics history is outlined. It was divided into three stages including epistemology, ontology, and new development. Second, how to apply this theory was discussed: the text is a basis; readers are the focus, while the intention of the author is an important reference coefficient. The core question of this thesis is how to grasp the meaning of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from philosophy. The concrete questions included why and how to interpret the Stories, and made an outline of the interpretation history of the Stories.Chapter three is focused on the interpretation of the Stories in Qing Dynasty. First, this chapter decided the position of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio in Chinese story history, and looked back and outlined the creation and development of the literal story. Pu Song-ling who was a traditional intellectual in the feudal society was keen on the court test, therefore his life, ideology, and literary creation had a close relationship with the education policy at that time. After that, the thesis made an analysis of the education policy in Qing Dynasty, which was the background of the creation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. The intention of the author was suspended after its completion, but it was objective as the ideology and motivation of the author. The commentary in the end of the Stories reflected the thought of the author though they were not the writing intention of the writer. There were three kinds of the interpretations on Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio in Qing Dynasty: exhortation, lonely anger, and entertainment. During the analysis, the interpreter, interpretation methods, and interpretation types were dwelled on.Ji Yun's commentary on Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio shared both the literary form and the contents. The picture poems in the book were also sorted out, and the creative interpretation in them was paid a special attention to.Chapter four Interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio since the 1900s The main characteristics of the interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio since the 1900s enter the historical category of modernization gradually. On this basis, the paper summarizes three main causes and seven basic characteristics of the interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio. The mainstream views consider that the interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio has been obviously influenced by a general mood of different eras and has shown a trend of time evolution. As is known, the history of China's development since the 1900s can be divided into three stages which are the earlier stage of the 1900s, the stage between the foundation of China and 1980s, and the stage since the new era. Therefore, this chapter summarizes different views of the interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio and analyzes their interacting relations by these three stages. Moreover, style of writing of the literature history of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio since the 1900s has also been paid attention to. Taking the view of traditional literature history, evolutionism, materialistic interpretation of history and the new exploratory the writing style of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio since the new era as the clue, the paper combs its sequence of ideas and analyses some examples to show one important aspect of the interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio.Chapter five Overseas interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese StudioAbroad interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio is on its basis of spreading abroad. The paper first gives an outline of the spreading abroad of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio by two stages: the stage before the 1900s and after the 1900s, then analyzes it at macroscopic and microscopic horizons, and the former is to make an general grasp of the abroad interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio and to clarify six commentary views, while the latter is to introduce five aspects of the American interpretations of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio and to make an concrete analysis from the aspect of sociology, psychology and economics, taking the American interpretations of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio as an example. The paper also analyzes three cultural attitudes in the course of the culture exchange between China and overseas, combining the depictions and its abroad interpretation of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio. Finally, the author brings forth that we should not only treat the new commentary of Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio by foreign cultures pertinently, but also propagandize actively the interpretation Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio from a Chinese Studio by Chinese scholars to promote the prosperity and development of different cultures by the way of culture spread and literature interpretation.The conclusions are: the diverse attitude should be taken towards the interpretation of the Stories. Pursue neither one voice, nor more standards. Rational dialogue was advocated, and new metaphysics should be avoided. At the same time creative interpretations with the times characteristics should be encouraged in order to realize the creative transformation in the understanding of the Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.